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El asesino se embarca
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Wikipedia article
'El asesino se embarca' (English: "The Assassin Goes on Board") is a 1967 Mexican action thriller film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Enrique Lizalde, Regina Torn, Armando Silvestre, Tito Junco and Jorge Russek.
The film's sets were designed by art director Manuel Fontanals.
Plot
A police officer unlucky with women is on a ferry from La Paz to Mazatln where a criminal wants to take possession of some plates to forge dollars.
Cast
*Enrique Lizalde as Vctor Medina
*Regina Torn as Paula
*Armando Silvestre as Tony
*Tito Junco as Ivn
*Jorge Russek as Villagrn
*Barbara Angely as Lidia
*Jessica Mungua as Vicky
*Eduardo Noriega as Captain Valds
*Julin de Meriche as The cripple
*Joaqun Martnez as Pedro
*Eduardo MacGregor as Fake Husband (as Eduardo Mac Gregor)
*Elizabeth San Romn as Child's Mom
*Federico Falcn as Saldvar (as Federico del Castillo)
*John Kelly as Gringo
*Victor Eberg as Ivan's Bodyguard (as Victor Eckberg)
*Fernando Yapur as Ivan's Bodyguard
*Pepito Velzquez as Child (as nio Jos Velzquez)
*Martha Navarro as Rosita
*Horacio Salinas as Serafn
Release
The film was released on 31 August 1967 in the Variedades cinema, for two weeks.
Reception
In 'Breve historia del cine mexicano: primer siglo, 18971997', Emilio Garca Riera cited the film as an example, alongside 'S.O.S. Conspiracin Bikini' (1967) and 'Cuatro contra el crimen' (1968), of Mexican films made in the 1960s to cash in on the success of the James Bond films, referring to them as examples of "underdeveloped James Bond-ism."
References
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